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It’s a fact of life that PCs get slower and more sluggish over time, as we expect aging hardware to rise to the challenges of newer operating systems and applications.
But eventually, PCs get to the point where they need some care and feeding. The method of rejuvenation I used to recommend was to add more RAM.
But not any more.
Tip: A quick way to find out what your motherboard is to fire up a Command Prompt and use the Windows Management Instrumentation Command-line tool. To do that, type:
wmic baseboard get product,manufacturer,version
The process is pretty simple:
Open up the PC and fit the new drive. Fire up the Windows Disk Management tool (press Windows Key+R on your keyboard to launch the Run dialog box and then type diskmgmt.msc and press Enter). Find the new drive, which will be marked as “unknown” and “Not initialized” in the listing of drives at the bottom of the Disk Management window, and then right-click on where it says “unknown” and choose Initialize Disk and then follow the prompts. Download, install, and then launch MiniTool Partition Wizard Free Edition. Click on Migrate OS to SSD/HD in toolbar and follow the prompts.
When the migration process is done — this will take some time, maybe as much as a few hours — then you will need to set the system BIOS to boot up off the SSD. You can, if you want, remove the old drive, or keep it in the system, wipe it, and use it for storage.
Tip: Swapping a drive will not trigger a Windows reactivation.
So will this work for you?
Having tried it with a range of SSDs (ranging in performance from basic to high-end), and across a range of systems (from dual-core to dual-socket), I’m pretty confident that anyone moving from a hard drive to an SSD will see serious performance gains, even when RAM is down at the 2GB levels (below that and RAM does become quite a limiting factor, but if you’re running Windows 10 then you ideally need 2GB).
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